RE: Op/ed the "freedom" dodge
December 20, 2012 at 1:27 pm
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2012 at 1:35 pm by Brian37.)
(December 20, 2012 at 1:19 pm)Great Ape Wrote: The Skins...fuck up? No way!
Jusssst kidding I like RG3
I love him too, but I fear he might end up like many skinny scramblers and has a bounty on his head because he is so good.
If he is to last for many years the rest of our cylinders ESPECIALLY our offensive line, needs to protect him to keep him healthy. If we had the Hoggs of the 80s in front of RG we'd win the Super Bowl every year.
But I do have to say, his back up has filled in very well. That is what we have missed for far too long. Depth. I hate the injury excuse. When you have depth your back ups are just as good as the starters.
(December 20, 2012 at 1:17 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: Ok you are number one in crime rate. IF ONE SIMPLY COUNTS THE CASES!
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_to...tal-crimes
Dont forget, the US has a population of 300 000 000 people. Conclusive crimemates are done by numbering the number of crimes by 100 000 people.
For which I only have the statistics on the homicide rate, since I couldn`t find one which includes all crimes.
But if you would care to take a look at it, you would notice that there are alot of "western" nations which in terms of homicide are alot worse of than the US, out of which I conclude that the overall crimerate is certainly higher in other "western" nations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...icide_rate
I never said that one shouldn`t solve a problem simply based on the argument that others are worse of, I generaly believe that one should only orientate oneself on the best when attempting to solve a problem.
But you cannot argue, that the US is worse off than all western countries. That is simply not true.
Hello McFly! STILL MISSING MY POINT.
Your argument "You are better than others", is still an dodge and excuse not to improve even more.
You are dead wrong. Being better in on stat does not mean we are better in all stats. Education especially. We are way behind many countries and even a few third world countries. We are behind in heath care, we spend the most on it, but have more people knocked out of the system and far to many merely relying on the ER. Fuck, even Cuba has universal health care, doesn't mean I want to become Cuba.
"Things are not as bad as they seem". To who? Yea in some aspects of life I do have it better, even being poor. But that does not mean it has to be a race to the bottom.
Corporate America is bent on modeling itself on India and China's slave wage mentality. No thank you.
